Comment on Spice Submission

Adding style to structured documents has been a difficult issue since the
concept of structured documents has developed. In the early versions of HTML,
style information has been intermingled with document structure. It was made
possible only recently to separate style from HTML pages with the advent
of CSS. Then, other directions have been
proposed, namely XSL, for handling style
in complex XML documents on the Web.

The Spice submission is still another way to
consider style for structured documents on the Web.

The W3C staff have reviewed the submission and identified relationship to
the Style sheets activity, more
specifically to both working groups in this area:

The submission is also related to some extent to the
Document Object Model, but this activity
does not currently consider rendering objects (aka flow objects).

Next Steps: The relevant working groups will be invited to consider
whether the submission is partially or wholly within their scope.

The W3C membership is invited to discuss the disposition of the submission
in the w3c-ac-forum mailing list
or to advise the director in confidence via W3C
staff contact.

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